Multiplex in-cylinder pressure measurement utilizing an optical fiber with specific refractive-index composition

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1143-1150

  Komachiya, M ^a   Sonobe, H ^a   Oho, S ^a   Kurita, M ^a   Nakazawa, T ^a   Sasayama, T ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAPHRAGMS; DURABILITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GAS ENGINES; GASKETS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CYLINDER PRESSURE SENSORS; FOUR CYLINDER GASOLINE ENGINE; MISFIRING; OPTICAL POWER LOSS; STATIC PRESSURE RESPONSE;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0030101967     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.001143     Document Type: Article

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